We just celebrated our one year “engage-iversary” — the Fourth of July! How fun, right? We celebrated by going to the Pittsburgh fireworks. They were absolutely incredible, and I got to spend the evening with my family and fiance — the most important people to me in the world. In the 12 month time frame of our engagement so far, there has been both spikes and lulls in our wedding planning. Actually, to analogize,  think of your typical fireworks display.  It always starts off with a bang! (boom your engaged), and it continues with much ferocity. Then after some time passes, it kind of gets a little less exciting and you start to just anticipate the finale. Then comes the dramatic pause, when all is quite and you know the spectacle is just moments away. Finally, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Its here! And you realize what you’ve been waiting for the whole time – and recognize how much it was worth all the wait! So yeah, I guess its pretty obvious how much I love fireworks, eh? As our  engagement is quickly approaching the finale, let me reflect back on the fireworks display that was my wedding planning:

Pittsburgh Fireworks (taken by MoonBud)

Within two months of our engagement we had most (if not all) of my major vendors booked. The first two months was a frenzy of fun wedding planning. Ideas were brainstormed and options were limitless. If I recall from memory, I booked my Photographer about simultanious to my venue, DJ and Officiant, all on the same weekend one year prior to our future wedding date, actually. After that major weekend of decisions, we kind of had the skeleton for much of the wedding.  Sure, minor details like the “do not play list” and the dinner entrees were still TBD, much of the framework was already set. Since then, I have obviously fleshed out much of the filler: the entire wedding party has their attire, my cake topper is in hand, and my flowers are all picked out. Then the last few weeks have kind of been this silence. I flip in between the “everything’s done” and “nothings done” with moments notice, without accomplishing very much. I dont imagine it will be much longer before the finale starts and a frenzy of wedding finishing touches moves to the top of my “to do” list. Until then, I’m eagerly anticipating the wonderful finale of my wedding, which is just around the corner!

Here comes the finale!!! (by MoonBud)